Imaging

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Writing a Poem

Published March 18, 2019 by Nan Mykel

I’m writing a poem,

waiting for an image

to lead me on while eating

Greek yogurt…No, can’t

do both at the same time.

Now I am writing a poem,

my eyes closed…………….

A snapping turtle. I’m falling

asleep. No, I must do this.

Why did Socrates drink

hemlock? Maybe if I lie down…

Got it! Helpless worms who

drown in a downpour. And

unsuspecting turkeys who raise

their heads, drink the rain and

die. I didn’t use to know that.

Of course! My offstage image

has arrived: water. . . Tears.

No wonder it took me so long to

recall New Zealand, Parkland,

Jumal Khashoggi, refugees,

children in cages, climate change

and the raccoon who was tortured

to death in my hometown. And no,

I shed no tears for the devil.

Nan

Creativity : Koestler

Published August 27, 2016 by Nan Mykel

“All creativity is a kind of do-it-yourself therapy, an attempt to come to terms with traumatizing challenges.,,In the artist’s case, challenge and response are manifested in his tantalising struggle to

express he inexpressible, to conquer the resistance of his Koestler medium, to escape from the distortions and constraints imposed by the conventional styles and techniques of his time….”

Discussing creativity in the sciences, Koestler quoted Einstein who said, “The words of the language as written or spoken do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought, which relies on more or less clear images of a visual and sometimes muscular type. It seems to me that what you call full consciousness is a limited case which can never be fully accomplished because consciousness is a narrow thing.”

“There are always large chunks of irrationality embedded in the creative process, not only in art (where we are ready to accept it). but in the exact sciences as well.”

From Arthur Koestler’s The Ghost in the Machine, Macmillan 1967.